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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:53775 {2} USN
    Construction Number:3837
    Last Civil Registration:CF-ZTS
    Compressed ID:General Motors TBM-3E sn 53775 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Miramichi Air Service, Douglastown, NB

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 53775 {2}.

    6 February 1957

    To Chris D. Stoltzfus, Coatesville, PA with new c/r N7028C.
    Purchased as part of lot #9 (4 Avengers) for $3459.61 from the U.S. Navy facility at Litchfield Park, Phoenix, Arizona.

    19 December 1961

    To Hillcrest Aircraft Co Inc, Lewiston, ID keeping c/r N7028C.

    From 1963 to 1972

    To Hillcrest Aircraft Co, Lewiston, ID keeping c/r N7028C.

    Operated as fire service #D7.

    Operated as fire service #A23.

    October 1971


    Photographer: Merrill McBride
    Notes: TBM #A23 parked at airstrip at the Clarkston, WA, overhaul facility on the Snake River across from Lewiston, ID, in October 1971. Left to right: Art Robinson, Merrill McBride, unknown

    15 December 1971

    Civil registration, N7028C, cancelled.

    From 1972 to 1973

    To Miramichi Air Service, Douglastown, NB with new c/r CF-ZTS.

    Operated as fire service #A23.

    Operated as fire service #07.

    5 June 1973

    Crashed.
    On takeoff crashed in woods a mile off south end of Sevogle airstrip, NB. Pilot Prast was unhurt, but the aircraft was destroyed.
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    TBM Avengers and Forest Protection Limited
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